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From: chagnon@pubcom.com
Date: May 6, 2023 10:51AM

As a member of the ISO committee for PDF and PDF/UA, I agree with Philip's assessment below.
There are many other types of documents that would tag a PDF a bit differently to provide a better user experience. But the Matterhorn reference documents are a great, basic start.

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Philip Kiff
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Looking for fully accessible PDF examples

One place to start is the PDF/UA Reference Suite from the PDF Association:
https://pdfa.org/resource/pdfua-reference-suite/

This is a collection of 10 sample PDFs that are supposed to demonstrate best practices and adhere to the PDF/UA-1 standard. Originally published in 2014 along with the Matterhorn protocol, the suite was updated in
2020 to reflect corrections and some changes in recommended tagging practices based on the PDF Association's "Tagged PDF Best Practices
Guide: Syntax" document.

I don't think the files include examples of ALL the accessibility features available in the PDF format. And in a couple small cases, I think there are differences of opinion about how best to tag certain items. The PDF/UA Suite tends to follow PDF/UA-1 standard strictly and to the letter, whereas some remediators will allow for minor variations in tagging as a result of focusing more on how currently popular screen reader software or other assistive technology actually processes PDF files instead of focusing only on that standard.

Phil.

Philip Kiff
D4K Communications

On 2023-05-05 20:54, Lucy GRECO wrote:
> A friend of mine is looking for some examples of PDFs that are fully
> accessible and in the collection of PDFs have all the accessibility
> features that Adobe provides. If anybody knows of such a collection,
> please let me know.
> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>